Masahisa Takenaka

Masahisa Takenaka (30 November 1933-27 January 1985) was the kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi yakuza syndicate from 1984 to 1985, succeeding Kazuo Taoka and preceding Yoshinori Watanabe.

Biography
Masahisa Takenaka was born on 30 November 1933 in Himeji, Japan, and he became a street criminal. In 1960, he was arrested for rallying the local poor against the government, and he later joined the Yamaguchi-gumi gang. In 1984, he was chosen to succeed Kazuo Taoka as kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi three years after Taoka's death, angering his rival Hiroshi Yamamoto. He was assassinated at his girlfriend's home in Osaka on 27 January 1985 by Yamamoto's Ichiwa-kai faction.